GRIFFIN John Oliver

  • First Name(s):
    John 
    Oliver 
  • Surname:
    GRIFFIN
  • Service Number:
    12617
  • Rank:

    Lance Corporal

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Gloucestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    28th January 1915
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Queenhill (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Worcestershire, England, On North side of Church
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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GRIFFIN John Oliver Is Named On These Memorials

Bushley St Peter’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Listed on the memorial as O. Griffin.

Further Information About GRIFFIN John Oliver

Enlisted Tewkesbury.

Additional information on the memorial: Pte

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral as J. Oliver Griffin with the information: The Gloucestershire Regiment.

John Oliver Griffin was born at Marston Trussell, Northamptonshire in 1890, the son of Stephen and Elizabeth Griffin of Worcester Lodge, Queenhilll.  Prior to enlisting he was employed as a chauffeur.

The Bushley, Longden, Queenhill and Holdfast Almanack and Year Book for 1915:
The Roll of Honour.
Bushley
The following is a List of Bushley men now serving their country in the Army.
1. Those who have enlisted for the War:
David Morgan, of Hill House, Lance-Corpl. 5th Glo’ster Territorials
William Nash, son of Mr Nash, Bushley School€¦.Culham School-masters Corps
Cecil Jones€¦.Trooper, Somerset Yeomanry.

In Kitcheners’s Army
J.O. Griffin (late chauffeur at Pull Court) Lance-Corpl. 9th Glo’sters
A.H. Walker, Lance-Corporal 9th Glo’sters
Henry Starling, of Freebarns End, 9th Glo’sters
J.T. Philpot, Bushley Green, 9th Glo’sters
Thos. Lane, The Gardens, Pull Court, 9th Glo’sters
H.G. Trigg, 9th Glo’sters
Charles Blake, Church End, 9th Glo’sters
A.A. Blake, 9th Glo’sters
Nathaniel W. George (who died in Hospital, Dec. 1) 9th Glo’sters
Richard Smith, Green Street Lodge, 9th Glo’sters
David Hamblin, 9th Glo’sters

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Credits: Researched by Andy Frisby. Cathedral Roll of Honour books researched by Sandra Taylor. Almanack courtesy of Peter Walker.